MinTTY 0.4.2

[Andy Koppe]

Hi,

MinTTY 0.4.2 is available for download from http://mintty.googlecode.com.
The Cygwin package is making its way to setup.exe mirrors. This
maintenance release contains mostly bug fixes:

- Fixed a rather bad bug that meant that the ISO-8859-1 codepage was
used for output in non-Unicode mode no matter the codepage setting.
- Fixed erroneous NumLock detection, which broke numpad support in
'orpie'.
- Fixed a problem with window resizing (again): after restoring from
maximized state, part of the bottom line would disappear behind the
window border.
- The colour of text under a block cursor now is set to whichever of
the foreground and background colours is further away (in colour
space) from the cursor colour, to try to ensure legibility.
- Dropped support for C1 control characters (i.e. 0x80 to 0x9F). This
is a VT220 feature, whereas MinTTY only claims to be a VT100 via its
"primary device attribute" string. Removing support makes Cygwin's /
bin/ascii utility work correctly with any 8-bit codepage and decreases
the likelihood of accidental binary output messing up the terminal
settings. Rxvt doesn't support the C1 control characters either, but
xterm does. Please let me know of any applications where this
incompatibility causes problems.
- Added a long version of the -e option ("--exec"), and documented
them in the manual page and --help output.
- Changed the tip on setting environment variables to use the 'env'
command instead of 'sh -c'.
- Added man page tip on making bash and readline 8-bit clean, to allow
non-ASCII input and output.

Please report problems via the issue tracker at http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/list
or the discussion group at mintty-...@googlegroups.com.

Regards,
Andy